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03 February 202023.15 The writer and essayist George Steiner is dead. A leading figure in international culture for his literary criticism studies, the author of innovative moral and religious keys. He addressed issues such as the relationship between power, barbarism and ignorance. His numerous essays have been translated into a dozen languages. He was a teacher in many universities including Princeton, Stanford, Oxford. He was born in Paris to an Austrian family of Jewish origin. The death occurred in Cambridge. He was 90 years old.